Resource Attitude

Possibilities are met with goodwill and let in. What is new is weighed first for what it could become, and the self stays open to being changed by it. A community owes its openness to the unfamiliar to them.

Possibilities are met with doubt and kept at arm's length. The flaw in an idea is found before its promise, and nothing is let in on enthusiasm alone. A community's hopes are tested against them.

What is present and one's own is watched for danger and held close. Harm is anticipated on behalf of the people and things that belong to one, and care reaches them in practical form. A household stays whole because of them.

The near world is claimed, arranged and enjoyed on one's own terms. What is at hand is taken as good, and the place one occupies is kept to one's own standard. Wherever they settle, the place becomes livable and stays that way.